Chronicles I 5:11-22

11 The sons of Gad dwelt over against them in the land of Basan even to Sela.
12 Joel the first-born, and Sapham the second, and Janin the scribe in Basan.
13 And their brethren according to the houses of their fathers; Michael, Mosollam, and Sebee, and Joree, and Joachan, and Zue, and Obed, seven.
14 These the sons of Abichaia the son of Uri, the son of Idai, the son of Galaad, the son of Michael, the son of Jesai, the son of Jeddai, the son of Buz,
15 the brother of the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their families.
16 They dwelt in Galaad, in Basan, and in their villages, and all the country round about Saron to the border.
17 The enumeration of all took place in the days of Joatham king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
18 The sons of Ruben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasse, of mighty men, bearing shields and sword, and bending the bow, and skilled in war, forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going forth to battle.
19 And they made war with the Agarenes, and Itureans, and Naphiseans, and Nadabeans,
20 and they prevailed against them: and the Agaraeans were given into their hands, and all their tents: for they cried to God in the battle, and he hearkened to them, because they trusted on him.
21 And they took captive their store; five thousand camels, and two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.
22 For many fell slain, because the war of God. And they dwelt in their place until the captivity.

Chronicles I 5:11-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 5

This chapter relates the genealogy of the tribes that lived on the other side Jordan; of the Reubenites, 1Ch 5:1-10, of the Gadites, 1Ch 5:11-17 of the half tribe of Manasseh, 1Ch 5:23,24 and of their war with the Hagarites, in conjunction with each other, and their conquest of them, 1Ch 5:18-22 and who for their sins were all carried captive by the king of Assyria, 1Ch 5:25,26.

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